A FAMOUS NAME

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 188, 8 May 1934, Page 13

A FAMOUS NAME

Mr. Kemball’s Newhaven GREAT HORSE RECALLED Some comment has been provoked in Australia by the naming of a yearling member of Mr. W. R. Kemball s new team at Caulfield (Melbourne). This is the chestnut colt by Iliad from Skydream. He has been called Newhaven. There is no reciprocity between Australia and New Zealand in the naming of racehorses. The Iliad Newhaven was named in the Dominion, so that Mr. Kemball is quite within his rights in choosing the name. . ’ . Some time ago the Victoria Racing Club decided that names used for geldings could after a certain lapse of time be again registered. None the less there was a pretty general idea that the name of a famous performer such as Gloaming —even though his name is of New Zealand registration—would not be passed for a newcomer. The original Newhaven in Australia was a horse of the highest class and a notable performer, both in his native land and in England. As a two-year-old ill the 189u-96 season he carried the colours of Mr. J. Wilson, junr., and won five races, including the V.R.C. Maribyrnong Plate and Ascot Vale Stakes. Melbourne Cup Feat. In the following season he was raced by Mr. W. T. Jones and Mr. William Cooper, afterward Sir William Cooper. He won ten races as a three-year-old, including'the Victoria Derby, Melbourne Cup, V.R.C. Spring Stakes, A.J.C. Spring Stakes, Craven Plate, and St. L'eger. He was not a starter in the A.J.C. Derby. His Melbourne Cup victory was one of the greatest in the history of that race: He carried .7.13, or _ 71b. above weight-for-age, the heaviest impost successfully carried by a three-year-old in the Melbourne Cup. Newhaven practically led from start to finish and won by six lengths in 3.284. Success in England. At the conclusion of his three-year-old season Newhaven became the sole property of Mr. Cooper and was shipped to Englund. There, in 1899, he ran five times. With 9.0, and ridden by Mornington Cannon, he won the City and Suburban at Epsom. Another Australian performer, the Lochiel horse Survivor, was second. With 9.10 on his back Newhaven next won the March Stakes, one mile and a quarter, at Newmarket. He was unplaced in the Kempton Park Great Jubilee, but he won the Epsom Cup, one mile and a half, with 9.6. His last race .was in the Goodwood Cup. two miles and a half, and he finished third. The winner was the Australian horse Merman, who was raced in England by the “Jersey "Lily” »(Mrs. Langtry, afterward Lady de Bathe). 7 £lOOO for Lost Pedigree. In ordinary circumstances, Newhaven would have been booked for a good stint at the stud in England, but the breeding of his maternal ancestress Dinah could not be traced, and eo Newhaven was ineligible for the English Stud Book. Dinah was foaled in New South Wales in 1844, and was brought overland from Sydney to Melbourne with a mob ot horses. She was purchaeed and taken Io Muntham station by Mr. Henty. She had a colt foal nt foot who subsequently raced as Buckley. Dinah was a bay mare, said to be by Gratis, but nothing was ever really known of her breeding. Mr. James Wilson, who first raced Newhaven. offered £lOOO. for information as-to the breeding of Dinah, but to no avail: , x- • \ Newhaven was- by Newminster. whose supposed poisoning on. the .eve of bio race for the Victoria Derby in the ’seventies was a big Australian sensation at the time. Newminster was owned by Mr. Andrew Chirnside, who died in Victoria recently. This horse was the first Caulfield Cup winner. Oceana, dam of Newhaven. was by St. Albans from Idaha, by Tim Whiffler from Musidora, by The Premier from Dinah, by Gratis. ■ " . ~ In July, 190.”. Newhaven was brought back to Australia. .... The Newhaven of the ’nineties is not the only famous Australian performer that will be recalled by Mr. Kemball s yearlings now in Melbourne; Another of the batch is Whernside. One of the most noted steeplechasers of nil time in \ ictoria was 'Whernside, who was a remarkable weight-carrier.